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by sgustard 3196 days ago
CS breaks the ternary ?: operator which is a big headache for me.
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igl 3196 days ago
Everything is an expression. Including if statements. There is no need of such syntax abominations.
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jashkenas 3196 days ago
Bingo. Remember when you first first learned the ternary operator syntax? I recall thinking something along the lines of, "Wow, that's cryptic!"

    result = if condition then success else failure
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sgustard 3194 days ago
Sure, but other coffee operations like x||=5 are also abominations. Brevity and purity are often at odds and the choices made by a language can be arbitrary.
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